The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

But sometimes a shattered view is the only way to see truth.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.

Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.